Siege of Bologna (1796)

The Siege of Bologna (late November 1796) was a siege of the French Revolutionary Wars that occurred when the 1,291-strong French army of general Jean-Andre Massena stormed the Papal city of Bologna in northern Italy. The French preemptively declared war on the Papal States due to the Pope's friendship with the Holy Roman Empire and the Coalition, and Massena's strong French army marched north from Florence to besiege the city. The French brushed aside the Papal forces in their path, and they besieged Giacomo Ferrari's 1,440 Papal troops in the city. Massena's army stormed the city with 167 losses, conquering the Emilia-Romagna region for the French First Republic.